Word: campus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Tom Clark, turned up as a volunteer defender of the 18 strikers when they were taken to court. In midweek, the Easter vacation came, and C.C.N.Y.'s strikers stopped picketing the campus. The strike, they promised, would continue after the holiday...
Warm Wellesley welcomes await the perservering, perspiring cyclists who finish the ten and a half mile Outing Club bike race to the female-frequented Waban campus tomorrow morning...
...plump 56, Gaines still rises at dawn, still likes to promenade about the campus swinging one of his 30 canes. He himself never forgets the traditions of W. & L. ("You may not be aware of it," he tells dinner guests in the president's house, "but Lee died in this room.") Nor can his minks, surrounded as they are by a statue of George Washington on the cupola, the bronze plaques that mark the places where Yankee cannon balls hit during the Civil War, the tomb of Lee himself, and the polished skeleton of Lee's favorite horse...
...more than any other book to explain to literate Americans what the European war then raging was all about. It so impressed Woodrow Wilson that the President invited him to Paris in 1919 as a member of the U.S. peace delegation. After that, Seymour settled on the campus-first as professor, then as provost, finally as president...
Truth & Consequences. In his public addresses, President Seymour, against the current of popular materialistic thought, asserted the moral basis of freedom. His words were wise rather than provocative or demagogic. Thus he never became a "headline character." But among Elis he was both admired and loved. In campus gatherings he liked to sing The Sword of Bunker Hill, waving a blade in accompaniment. He still collected first editions of A. Conan Doyle and E. Phillips Oppenheim, and liked to invite students around for beer and talk on a Sunday evening...